Kevin J. Schmidt is a senior manager at Dell SecureWorks, Inc., an industry leading MSSP, which is part of Dell. He is responsible for the design and development of a major part of the company's SIEM platform. This includes data acquisition, correlation and analysis of log data. Prior to SecureWorks, Kevin worked for Reflex Security where he worked on an IPS engine and anti-virus software. And prior to this he was a lead developer and architect at GuardedNet, Inc.,which built one of the industry's first SIEM platforms. Kevin is also a commissioned officer in the United States Navy Reserve (USNR). Kevin has over 19 years of experience in software development and design, 11 of which have been… in the network security space. He holds a B.Sc. in computer science.